Jon Anderson is weird

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Not just your everyday "plant"

jac·a·ran·da
n.1. Any of several tropical American trees or shrubs of the genus Jacaranda, having pinnately compound, opposite leaves and panicles of pale purple flowers with funnel-shaped corollas.
2. The wood of this tree or a wood similar to it.

[Portuguese jacarandá, from Tupi, having a hard core, hard branch.]

Lyrics are really "poetry" so many liberties are taken. But read further and I think it is clear (IMHO) that he is talking of the tree and using it as an example of long life and the history it gives to society. And the sorrow when it changes and falls.

Jacaranda
Help me out tomorrow
Jacaranda
Don't want to be alone
Keep falling over
A spell that brings me sorrow
Give and take
I shouldn't be afraid
So you give me this big story
It wakes me every day
The challenge is to chase the sounds
Just to break away

And I'm running
Running
Yes I'm running
A simple peace
Just can't be found
Waste another day
Blasting all their lives away
I've heard the thunder
Underground
Tunneling away
At the very soul of man

But then that's my demented mind's eye. There's no auguing that Jon's a weird one. But I find his work very uplifting and poetic. That is, when I do get it. Sometimes the boat sails without me reason, arrr. Sometimes "the wind with its arms all around me".

Here's another good example between "You and I"

Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you.

But then if I truly understood poetry, I'd have bigger feet.
They'd be Longfellows...